Money As You Grow: Twenty Things Kids Need to Know Money As You Grow: Twenty Things Kids Need to Know was compiled by experts using existing national guidelines to give age-appropriate lessons that kids need to know. |
Staff Survey on Investor Education Content What reference sources would you use to answer these questions about personal investing? Timberland Regional Library used this tool to help develop their staff training. |
Financial Planning Opportunities for People of All Incomes Use this handbook developed by the Multnomah County Public Library, to find websites and agencies that help you manage your money. |
FINRA Powerlinks Using FINRA.org PowerLinks on your Web site allows you to integrate up-to-date content directly into your existing Web pages. |
Staff financial knowledge survey Milwaukee Public Library used this survey to determine the staff’s knowledge about the language of basic investing and money management. |
Schaumburg Township District Library: Market research summary of Millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers Staff developed one survey using skip logic to gather input from all three groups to gauge their financial literacy and develop appropriate programming. |
FINRA Investor Education Foundation Modules Take advantage of these FINRA Investor Education Foundation investor education content modules to develop your programs. They’re proven, authoritative, unbiased and free. |
FINRA Financial Capability Study FINRA Foundation has created a new website with state-by-state data about financial capability that allows comparisons to nation, regional and other state samples. |
Money Smart Week Money Smart Week is April 2-9 and ALA’s role in Money Smart Week is growing as more libraries participate in the expansion of this national partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Visit their site for more information about programs and materials. |
Evaluation Overview A guide to creating a plan for evaluation of your Si@yl program to ensure your goals aren’t out of reach. |
Evaluation 101 Outcomes based evaluation is a systematic way to assess how well a program has achieved its intended results. Review this step by step presentation from the ALA Office of Research and Statistics to learn how to design an evaluation plan. |
Menu of Data Collection Methods You can’t measure success without a baseline. A pre-test and a post-test is one method among many that can help gauge what people know before the program and what changed as a result of the program. |
Gen X Pre and Post Test Developed by the Extension Office at Iowa State University, in collaboration with Ames Public Library, this test was used as both pre and post to create baseline information and to determine level of understanding following class presentations. |
Sample Evaluation Form A sample Project Evaluation Form is completed and displayed for illustrative purposes only. |
NEFE Financial Education Evaluation Online Toolkit This National Endowment for Financial Education kit includes sample evaluations, an evaluation manual, and an evaluation database |
User Survey This brief but effective survey helps the Athens-Clarke County Regional Library System plan the times, types and location of programs. |
FINRA Investor AlertsFINRA develops Investor Alerts to educate investors about important and timely investing issues. These will be delivered automatically to your feed reader or news service (like Google News, Yahoo or NetNewsWire). |
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The Smart investing@your library®: Everyone Counts! panel at Annual Conference, sponsored by the Public Library Association, has been recommended by ProgrammingLibrarian.org. Continue reading
